living together?

[Jerhart]

Keep them separated. Snakes are solitary creatures and they can and will fight for the best basking spots, cool spots, etc.

There are ZERO benefits to housing multiple snakes together.

If an excuse is to 'save space' then I suggest the person gets out of the hobby, since carpets are not exactly "little" snakes.

...get a big cage.

[Whiffa]

...get a big cage.

uh, no. What benefits are there for housing two snakes together?

[Jerhart]

uh, no. What benefits are there for housing two snakes together?

...breeding. It's difficult for snakes to breed in two separate cages.

[Whiffa]

...breeding. It's difficult for snakes to breed in two separate cages.

Cool, and during breeding season that's perfectly acceptable. And when it's not breeding season, there are no benefits to housing them together.

Thanks for proving my point.

[Jerhart]

Cool, and during breeding season that's perfectly acceptable. And when it's not breeding season, there are no benefits to housing them together.

Thanks for proving my point.

What benefit do you get from two snakes (morelia) housed separately?

[Whiffa]

What benefit do you get from two snakes (morelia) housed separately?

They don't fight for dominance, they aren't stressed out. They show no aggression to me, they eat perfectly for me.

They shed perfectly. It's easier to maintain humidity and temperature gradients in two individual habitats than just one.

So can you tell me what benefits you get from housing two NON breeding snakes together? You've completely avoided answering it.

[Jerhart]

They don't fight for dominance, they aren't stressed out. They show no aggression to me, they eat perfectly for me.

They shed perfectly. It's easier to maintain humidity and temperature gradients in two individual habitats than just one.

...never had a problem with any of that.

[Colin Vestrand]

Cool, and during breeding season that's perfectly acceptable. And when it's not breeding season, there are no benefits to housing them together.

Thanks for proving my point.

your point holds no water here, in my opinion, because it has been proven that when you aren't disrupting snakes by shifting them around during breeding season, they often breed readily with little cycling. thus, housing them together year round means they may be more willing to breed, if not just as willing as if they're housed separately.

[Whiffa]

your point holds no water here, in my opinion, because it has been proven that when you aren't disrupting snakes by shifting them around during breeding season, they often breed readily with little cycling. thus, housing them together year round means they may be more willing to breed, if not just as willing as if they're housed separately.

Breeding snakes every year is extremely unhealthy and a great way to shorten the life span of a breeder. But okay, you CLEARLY know everything.